In a suicide case reported late on Thursday night at Rajpur police station, 24 year old Saurabh Singh Nayal was found hanging from a noose in his room. According to information provided by the police, Saurabh was a tenant at the residence of SP Nautiyal in Bhandar village, Rajpur. According to his siblings and family members he was suffering from stress for past few months. It is important to mention here that just in the first 15 days of August six suicide cases have already been registered including this one in Dehradun district. Report of a couple committing suicide near in a Dharmshala at Triveni Ghat was reported at Rishikesh police station on August 1.
In two separate cases reported in Vasant Vihar and Dalanwala police station on August 3, two women committed suicide and on August 6 a man was found hanging from a noose in his room on Tyagi road.